
Former Councillor Bhangu looking to get back on his feet after acquittal
Merritt — “It knocked me on my back. Got to get a job, get my finances right, get back on my feet,” said Mike Bhangu.
This week, former Merritt city councillor Bhangu was acquitted in a Kamloops courtroom. Bhangu had been charged with uttering threats to cause death of bodily harm back in 2021 but always maintained his innocence.
It had been alleged that Bhangu threatened the worker of a local moving company his ex-partner hired to help move her out of the former councilors house.
“I strongly feel what I endured was a racist and political attack,” Bhangu told CFJC News. “I was not treated fairly through the process. I was treated as a second-class citizen. The system was manipulated, and it was easily manipulated to harm me. That truly traumatized me. I don’t feel as safe as I did prior to all this happening.”